MAIL SUMMARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3168, 24 August 1881, Page 3

MAIL SUMMARY.

The London Standard reprints from the Irish American papers published in New York a column and a half of extracts praising the outrages against England. The rifle shooting at Wimbledon began on July 12th. The Canadian team, which numbers twenty, was commanded by Colonel Gibson, who is accounted the best shot in Canada. The

University match terminated in favor of Oxford. The heat was intense, the thermometer on the 15th standing at 137. Several riflemen who were overcome had to go to hospital. Scotland won the international trophy, scoring 1774 marks, England 1744, and Wales 1086. The contributions to the Irish Land League from America have fallen off so materially that Mr Sexfon, the President suggests that the Irish farmers be asked to subscribe a portion of their abatement. Sir Evelyn Wood has been raised to the peerage for his services in his Transvaal. All England has been occupied during the month with a great libel case. The plaintiff Miss Wilberforce, sues a prominent citizen named Phillips for having said she poisoned his father, and that she was an adventuress and swindler. The plaintiff contradicted herself a hundred times in her testimony, and she will be prosecuted for perjury. A steamer has arrived in the Thames from the Clyde steered by the electric apparatus. The steering gear worked well, but the compasses were made useless by the electricity. In Ireland trial by jury has become a farce, owing to the lax law known as the O'Hagan Act. In some cases the jury announce before the charge is delivered that they have made up their minds to a verdict of not guilty ; the evidence of the crime is disregarded, and if the Crown's case is absolutely conclusive of the prisoner's guilt the jury generally disagree. Keene has presented 5000 francs to the poor of Paris out of bis Grand Prize winnings. The Cassagnac-Lullier duel was a sanguinary one, and was fought with swords, continuing till tho last drop of blood was drawn, and the body of the vanquished combatant was placed at the absolute disposal of tbe victor. The death of the Rev. Daniel McCarthy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry, is announced. Although Arthur Lefroy, the alleged murderer of Gould, was sent away from London at 7 o'clock in the morning a large crowd assembled at the London Bridge station, and but for the strong guard of police the prisoner would have been put out of his misery then and there. He had lived for a fortnight in a wretched coffee house in Stepney almost without food, and he looked nearly starved. His arrest was due to tbe lodg-ing-house keeper, an old woman named Smith, who recognised him from tbe Hue and Cry pictures. She will get the whole of the reward of £200 for her shrewdness. The police say he seemed relieved when captured. He had shaved off his whiskers, and cut bis bair, and although he denies all knowledge of the crime, his flight, concealment, and attempt to disguise himself, really amount to a plea of guilty. He took his arrest coolly, but was depressed and scared at the menacing attitude of the mob near the railway station. Dean Stanley was stricken with erysipelas on the 18th, and the disease spread rapidly. Canon Farrar administered the sacrament, and the Dean died on the 19tb. The Archbishop of Canterbury arrived in time for a few parting words. Cannons Farrar and Jones and the Dean's sister were at the bedside. His last audible words were, " I have laboured amidst many frailties and much weekness to make Westminster Abbey tbe great centre of religious life in a truly liberal spirit." Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender, has been expelled from French territory, on a charge that be was intriguing against the Republic, which he denies. Spanish hostility towards France is very bitter, and in the Madrid cafes the probability of war is openly discussed, and the coming elections are comparatively ignored. At the final reading of the Irish Land Bill in the House of Commons, the majority of the Conservatives and some Parnellites, including Mr Parnell himself, abstained from voting, and also Mr Goschen, Mr Heneage, and some other Liberals. Midhat Pasha has attempted suicide by opening his veins with a pair of ecissors. The potato crop throughout Ireland promises to be plentiful. An anti-slavery decree has been issued in Egypt, Actual slaves remain so, but no additions are to be made. Another comet which has appeaaed in the west is labelled by the astronomers comet " C," being the third this year. The Czar will shortly leave for Moscow, and as precautionary measures troops have been stationed all along the line, and four hundred police act as an escort. Sixty-three persons perished in eleven fishing boats lost off tbe coast of England in a gale on the 21st of July. The Nihilists held a congress in Berlin under tbe very nose of the Government, which, although fully warned of the fact, was unable to discover the place of meeting. The Jew rioters in New Stellin, angered at the denunciation of the Zeitung local paper, severely assaulted the editor, sacked some of the shops, and demolished the Zeitung office. Over thirty rioters were arrested. The New York Herald's special on July 21 has the following fresh particulars of the recent plot to assassinate the Czar telegraphed:—Baron-off, Chief of Police, has received an anonymous letter stating that the Emperor was to beassasiuated on the 15th. The letter contained nothing more. Baron-off made enquiries in every direction and ascertained that a young student had committed suicide under extraordinary circumstances. The man ran himself through with a sword without having injured any vital part; he then lodged a bullet from a revolver in his left temple, and then, finding himself still alive, fired again in the temple and in the gaping wound made by the sword. This determined suicide awakened Baronoff'B suspicions, and he found the man apparently dead, but in fact still breathing, and by the aid of doctors caused bim to come to his senses and speech. The student declared that he bad formed one of the band of twenty Nihilists who had all sworn to kill the Emperor. Tbe lot had fallen to him, but his heart failed, and he determined to kill himself instead. He lived till the 15th, and before breathing bis last revealed to Barouoff the names of all his brother Nihilists, who were promptly secured by the police. A special from St. Petersburg says another Nihilist has been found murdered in a cemetery with his throat cut from ear to ear. The deceased was in communication with the police when his brother Nihilists discovered his treachery, and they sent him a circular letter inviting him to dinner. On returning at night they assassinated and carried his body to the cemetery. The letter of invitation was found io the victim's pocket, which enabled the police to make an important arrest. A great landslip near Segriswell, Canton Berne, Switzerland, is steadily moving towards Lake Thurm. It makes three metres daily, and its course is three

miles wide, and of unknown depth. The cities are'out of danger, but the farmhouses are deserted. A terrific storm passed over Lake Geneva, and the vines and crops in the vicinity suffered immense damage from large hailstones.